Dear customer, we thank you for installing PowerArchiver - the ultimate archive utility for the Windows family of products. We hope that you will be satisfied with our program and will register it for your use.

PowerArchiver has a modern easy-to-use interface, and provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. We believe that PowerArchiver is the most complete archive utility available today.

This help file is very comprehensive, and it will answer every question you might have about PowerArchiver or one of its features. It starts with simple Tutorial , that shows you the most basic use of PowerArchiver and then goes on to explain every feature and function of PowerArchiver. While our help is easy to read, it anticipates knowledge of basic computer skills - if you are not familiar with terms such as file, folder or window, you might need to work on your basic computer skills before learning how to use PowerArchiver. Other than that, PowerArchiver should be easy to learn and use.

PowerArchiver contains all the basic features you would expect from a compression program / archive utility - you can read and extract from many different formats and you can also create archives in many different formats, including 7-Zip which is one of the best compression formats currently used. What makes PowerArchiver different from many similar utilities is the wealth of advanced features it has. Simply put, PowerArchiver is one of the most innovative utilities of its kind and many features you now take for granted in a compression utility were first offered in PowerArchiver. These include our new modern interface - licensed from Microsoft Office UI, powerful explorer shell extensions, password manager, advanced encryption support, backup features, archive converter, multiple extract tool, batch zip tool, FTP integration, powerful SFX support, ability to customize PowerArchiver look with our skinning support, as well as many other tools. PowerArchiver prides itself on its simple, smarter way of doing things throughout the whole application. Newly developed Professional versions adds even more features such as: CD/DVD/BD burning, FTP Client and many advanced backup features.

Please remember that PowerArchiver is not a free program. Developers and their families depend on our users to register PowerArchiver for home or business use. PowerArchiver is one of the most used programs in the world, yet less than 0.1% of people that use it actually pay for a license. Please purchase your copy of PowerArchiver: